Quotes About Interpretation

You should understand that I did not want you to read a painting. I/ wanted you to bathe in it before words domesticated the experience,/ and you turned to such stand-bys as "illumination" and "transcendent"/ to describe what happened to you. Painting should not be sentenced to/ sentences.

The mystery of the Bible lies not so much in what it says, as in what it does not say.

Aunt Winifred says that our hymns, taken all together, contain the worst and the best pictures of heaven that we have in any branch of literature.

It is so hard trying to say what you mean.

I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.

everything spoken on this earth contains a truth not always apparent at the time.

This story is about the eschatology of shadow puppets.

The student of the word should not make his opinions a center around which truth is to revolve. He should not search for the purpose of finding texts of Scripture that he can construe to prove his theories, for this is wresting the Scriptures to his own destruction.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

By mindfully considering data not as stable commodities but as sources of ambiguity, we become more observant.

Instead I invite you to consider why you laughed at a joke the last time you did. If the punch line made you realize that the story could be understood in a way other than how you first heard it, you have experienced a moment of mindfulness.

The way we first take in information (that is, mindfully or mindlessly) determines how we will use it later.

The same situation of stimulus called by a different name is a different stimulus. Roller coasters are fun but bumpy plane rides are not!

You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.

Computers have no idea what goes on outside of them except what humans tell them.

A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

She is not a toy, Mr. Towns, she is an airplane.

To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

History is what we choose to remember.

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

I suppose this is your way of telling me that you are outrageously happy?' Quill nodded. 'Of course.' 'Living with you is an act of interpretation, do you know that?' 'Living with you is...bliss. Did you know that?

Others were translated, for example, Churchton became Kirkby.